The automotive industry has a strong presence in the global economy and employs a significant proportion of the working population. It has contributed to the growth of modern society by satisfying everyday mobility. However, it has been accused of badly affecting the environment and public health, and thus finding new methods of propulsion for automotives is currently a subject of intense debate. .In this volume, the concept of sustainable development has been correlated with the main theoretical framework of production analysis and managerial economics, that is: manufacturing and architecture theories; the theoryof comparative advantage of design-location; design driven and design-thinking theories; concepts-knowledge models; rule-based and innovative design regimes; path dependency theory; literature on breakthrough and disruptive innovations; studies on technology competition; reasoned action and planned behaviour theories; institutional theoretical approaches; firm growth theories; the smartgrid paradigm; business model innovation; and definition of scenarios throughanalytic hierarchy process models and consumer framing. .The Greening of the Automobile Industry .is one of the products of the research programme 'Sustainable Development and Automotive Industry', run between 2007-2010 by GERPISA (the Permanent Group for the Study of and Research into the Automobile Industry and its Employees). GERPISA is a French-based international network of researchers in economics, management, history, and sociology, all studying the automotive industry. GERPISA was formed in 1992 and is made up of 400 members from27 different countries. Since 2010 GERPISA has become a Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique based at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. INDICE: Contents.List of Tables.List of Figures.Foreword; .B.Jullien.Acknowledgements.Notes on Contributors.Presentation of the Book; .G.Calabrese.PART I: INNOVATION DESIGN FOR ALTERNATIVE VEHICLES.Innovation Design and Sustainable Development In the Automotive Industry; .G.Calabrese.Manufacturing Capability and Architecture of Green Vehicles; .T.Fujimoto.Industrial Designers and Challenges of Sustainable Development; .M.Vervaeke.Towards new R&D Processes for Sustainable Development in the Automotive Industry: Experiencing Innovative Design; .M.Elmquist .& .B.Segrestin.PART II: TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES IN ALTERNATIVE VEHICLES.Balancing a Strong Strategic Intent and an Experimental Approach for Electric Vehicles; .F.Charue-Duboc .& .C.Midler.'Sailing Ship Effects' in the Global Automotive Industry? The Competition between 'New' and 'Old' Technologies in the Race for Sustainable Solutions; .D.Sushandoyo., .T.Magnusson .& .C.Berggren.Firm Perspectives on Hydrogen; .M.Dijk .& .C.Montalvo.CNG Cars:The Sustainable Motorization is Within Reach; .G.Volpato .& .A.Stocchetti.Institutional, Technological and Commercial Innovations in the Brazilian Ethanol and Automotive Industry; .M.Amatucci .& .E.E.Spers.New Forms of Vehicle Maker-Supplier Interdependence? The Case of Electric Machine Development for Heavy Hybrid Vehicles; .D.Sushandoyo., .T.Magnusson. & .C.Berggren.PART III: SURROUNDING CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVE VEHICLES.Electric Vehicles and Power Grids: Challenges and Opportunities; .E.Ragazzi, E.Bompard .& .A.Tenconi.Agreements and Joint-Ventures in the Electric Vehicle Industry; .G.Vitali.Business Model Innovation and the Development of the Electric Vehicle Industryin China; .H.Wang .& .C.Kimble.Urban Mobility as the Product of a Systemic Change and the Greening of Automotive Industry;. F.Garibaldo.Forecasting Framework for Evaluating Alternative Vehicles by Analytic Hierarchy Process Model andScenarios; .T.U.Daim .& .J.D.Upadhyay.Consumer Attitudes Towards Alternative Vehicles; .M.Dijk., .J.Nijhuis .& .R.Madlener.The Second Automotive RevolutionIs Underway. The Scenarios in Confrontation; .M.Freyssenet.Appendix: the GERPISA International Network.
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- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
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- Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2012
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